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English
Etymology
From be- + fuddle.
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befuddle (third-person singular simple present befuddles, present participle befuddling, simple past and past participle befuddled)
- (transitive) To perplex, confuse (someone).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:confuse
The explanation left him completely befuddled.
1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Nightmare”, in Jungle Tales of Tarzan, A. C. McClurg:Slowly the ape-man picked out the meaning of the various combinations of letters on the printed page, and as he read, the little bugs, for as such he always thought of the letters, commenced to run about in a most confusing manner, blurring his vision and befuddling his thoughts.
- (transitive) To stupefy (someone), especially with alcohol.
1983, Basile Kerblay, Modern Soviet Society, page 290: to the American and French alcoholics, who drink in order to get drunk and befuddle the brain
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